"Pupils shine brightest at grammar schools"

In an embarrassing turn for anti-grammar campaigners, the new 'value-added' ranking which has just been released proves that grammars really are the best schools in the country, and are the best free schools in the world. The teaching is the best in grammars than any other schools.

I've just read that too, in the Daily Express. Grammars are great for the people who are clever and want to work, but not so great for those who aren't so clever and want to work. Get rid of 'em and private schools, this would up the standards of Comp. Schools and maybe the new 'good' attitudes would spread.

In an embarrassing turn for anti-grammar campaigners, the new 'value-added' ranking which has just been released proves that grammars really are the best schools in the country, and are the best free schools in the world. The teaching is the best in grammars than any other schools.

V. bad idea.

I've just read that too, in the Daily Express. Grammars are great for the people who are clever and want to work, but not so great for those who aren't so clever and want to work. Get rid of 'em and private schools, this would up the standards of Comp. Schools and maybe the new 'good' attitudes would spread.

Ahh you live near me, I go to Chelmsford County High School-don't happen to know where that came do you?
I hope the anti-grammar campaigners learn a lesson and change their stupid policy. I hope Tony Blair will start putting the funds back into grammars instead of taking it away to make it difficult to provide a good education, trying to prove a point!
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Aww.... Huntroyde has come back after throwing his tantrum.

The new statistics have basic flaws.

Are education system is one of the few in the world that actively allows for gifted pupils. As today's results show, not only do grammars have the best pupils, they also have the best teaching standards. It would be a crime to abolish them.

Grammar schools appear good because of their selective intake.
They create a micro-climate within the education system, and create very extreme, localised, standard of education.

No, it is simply that grammars have the best value added statistics in the country, proving that they are the best in the ountry by a long way.

Lord Huntroyde has this strange pedestal on which he places his school. This clouds his thought and thus he is incapable of thinking rationally.

But as these stats show, there results are not based solely on the fact they are selctive, the teaching is excellant too.

These statistics have already been written off by education leaders/heads across the country.
Just goes to show how misleading statistical representation can be.

But as these stats show, there results are not based solely on the fact they are selctive, the teaching is excellant too.

Grammar schools appear good because of their selective intake.
They create a micro-climate within the education system, and create very extreme, localised, standard of education.